By Sarah Evans
While blaming Amcu and Lonmin, Jacob Zuma told Afrikaans community leaders that fewer miners would’ve died at Marikana if the police had been firmer.
According to President Jacob Zuma, fewer miners would have died at Marikana if the police had been allowed to be “more firm” in the days leading up to the 2012 massacre.
Addressing a group of leaders from the Afrikaans community at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria on Wednesday night, Zuma described the massacre as an “unfortunate incident” that happened in spite of South Africa’s “very good collective bargaining framework”.
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